When I was writing this blog the snowball effect seemed to talk hold of me and so it was split into two parts!The has been much press about outsourcing over recent years. Call centres to India were the initial hole in the dam. As this hole expanded to allow more trade it sucked in medical billing processes, content for publications, x-ray and even private tutoring for children.The use of technology and collaboration tools have helped to minimise any pains with transition to outsourced skills and the management of them but technology is not the answer to everything.The concept of virtual teams can increase our productivity. If you are happy to work more than 7 hours a day then you could start with you virtual team in Mumbai and finish your day with your colleagues in Vancouver or San Francisco, stopping a couple of times in Europe on the way. Sacrificing a few hours of mundane TV watching could prove to be an investment in your future.Leon and I were talking with Charles Carleton and Dennis Warren from Jyve Pro last night. Among many other things, we discussed how their technology is the realisation of a concept that Leon had two year previous and then wrote about in his book (so it is possible to predict the future ;) ). We focussed for some time on how Jyve Pro will initially be launched into the a market place which is typically has high throughput, with an low/average compensation.Arguably this is a good place to start as it may be possible to secure a large subscriber base with little effort and many would speculate that the subscriber base, and not the revenue, should
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